/ 2 March 2000

AFRICANS LIVE ON $1 A DAY

MORE than 40% of Africans live on less than a dollar a day, according to World Trade Organisation (WTO) figures announced at a conference of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa). A WTO delegation representative told Egypt’s government Al-Akhbar newspaper that poverty is “the most serious problem afflicting the African continent.” The world trade body includes 41 African states among its 135 members.